Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series Copyright (c) 2013 University of Massachusetts - Amherst All rights reserved. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs Recent documents in Linguistics Department Faculty Publication Series en-us Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:57:12 PST 3600 Perception of Exuberant Exponence in Batsbi http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/132 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/132 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:27:05 PDT Batsbi has multiple exponence (redundant marking) in gender-number agreement, and in a series of experiments we explore the question of whether marking of this kind is functional. In a series of three experiments, we compare verbs that have no agreement marker with ones that have a single marker, and we compare verbs with one agreement marker with ones that have two. We find that word recognition is slower with agreement than without it; words with two agreement markers are recognized more slowly and with more errors relative to verbs with a single marker. For grammaticality judgments, subjects were generally slower to respond when the verb carried more markers. For verbs with no marker versus verbs with one marker, this extra cognitive effort yielded improved accuracy; however, this advantage did not extend to multiple exponence, as the extra processing time did not produce much improvement in accuracy. In cued recall, the presence of one marker conferred a clear advantage in accuracy, but the presence of two agreement markers actually resulted in decreased accuracy. Overall, multiple exponence was found not to confer a functional advantage in these experiments.

]]> Harris, Alice Carmichael et al. Language Explaining Typologically Unusual Structures: The Role of Probability http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/131 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/131 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:13 PST Harris, Alice Carmichael On the Fused Pronoun in Andi, Avar and Andian Languages http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/130 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/130 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:11 PST Harris, Alice Carmichael Origins of Differential Unaccusative/Unergative Case Marking: Implications for Innateness http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/129 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/129 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:09 PST Harris, Alice Carmichael Exuberant Exponence in Batsbi http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/128 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/128 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:08 PST Harris, Alice Carmichael Natural Language and Linguistic Theory Placement of Person Markers in Udi: Supplementary Material http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/127 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/127 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:06 PST Harris, Alice Carmichael Reconstruction in Syntax: Reconstruction of Patterns http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/126 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/126 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:04 PST Harris, Alice Carmichael Light Verbs as Classifiers in Udi http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/125 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/125 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:02 PST Harris, Alice Carmichael Diachronica Explaining Exuberant Agreement http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/124 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/124 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:01:00 PST Harris, Alice Carmichael On the Explanation of Typologically Unusual Structures http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/123 http://scholarworks.umass.edu/linguist_faculty_pubs/123 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 12:00:58 PST Harris, Alice Carmichael